Hay progress

Tyler Jackson · Jun 27, 2011

How is everyone coming on their hay? We have 2 wagons sitting in the storage barn that need to be unloaded. It's our last of the 1st cutting, just gotta wait for it to stop raining long enough to get it stacked in the barn! After we get these put up well probly have 1800-2000 bails put up with a few more places to put some in then well be good for the winter.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 27, 2011

wqe cut a couple fields but have not been able to finish the big fields yet because of the rain.

Ken Macfarlane · Jun 27, 2011

Me? 0% the silage guys have been rolling.

I dug my mower out and hooked up, got it almost ready. Fixing up a few things on the tedder. Gonna weld a new jack point on the baler.

Spot sprayed, pulled and bushhogged the milkweed, pigweed and burdock. Got to get some thistles next.

Looked at the long term, the only clear patch was coming up. Work tells me I'm getting sent away for 2 days in the middle.

showcrop · Jun 27, 2011

200 down 4500 to go. Lots of sun in the forecast with two day windows.

jordan watson · Jun 27, 2011

We have got about 3/4 of our first cutting done. Rain has had us held up for the last 2 weeks. I ain't gonna complain though we needed it really bad. Most of our first cutting isn't good for much cause it has been so dry here in alabama.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 27, 2011

I am hauling in my first cutting. I made over 200 4x5 round bales on approx 100 acres of meadows. Roy

wolfman · Jun 27, 2011

5 fields done, 39 to go! Baled about 2000 squares - all those in three days. Haven't rolled a wheel in nearly two weeks. Not a lot of rain, but a little every other day. Not good hayweather here in s.w. Pa. I'll probably get finished around Thanksgiving.

Tyler Jackson · Jun 27, 2011

Feelin you on the rain and number of bails. Our last load got about .06 of an inch on it in the morning then nothing the rest of the day. If theres a few good days gotta go bail 4000 straw bails.

jason, NW Ontario · Jun 27, 2011

6 acres down, 110 to go. 6 acres is a great trial to find out how things are running. Storms were coming last night so I had to bale it a day early - very heavy and a tad wet still. Thankfully that field hasn't seen fertilizer for 40 years, so it was really low; got it all on one trailer and the horses and sheep (even the weaner pigs) are feasting on it. The custom baling across the road is full of something Grampa calls redtop - very thin stalk, makes my haybine look like it needs new teeth and guards. Can't wait to have that field in my rearview mirror.
Jay

tjdub · Jun 27, 2011

If finally stopped raining here. Yesterday I baled up 15 rounds that had been getting washed about once a day for the 12 days it was down Not as black as you would expect since the sun never shone on it since I cut it. Too much of it was sitting in standing water though. I raked what I could out of the lakes the day before I baled it, but it was still bad. Rained again right after I baled it.

I cut a few more acres today. The weather forecast says 4 days without rain. I doubt it.

RLA · Jun 28, 2011

When it comes to DRY hay, NO PROGRESS. Did get
20 some round bales of ist cutting rolled. But
that"s it. We have none down, 70 acers to go or
maybe a few more & it"s lost the value a few
weeks ago.. Rain just about everyday. NW PA

Anonymous-0 · Jun 28, 2011

got 4 and a half acres down, getting ready to bale half of it in a few, the other half tomorrow. Supposed to get a little storm with a mm or so of rain tomorrow evening then another weak or so of dry so I can cut the other 5 or 6 acres..... Not much hay on them this year tho............

Shane Tharp · Jun 28, 2011

Getting ready to start cutting hay tomorrow. It rains everyday here and is hard getting enough dry weather to make hay.

Eldo case · Jun 28, 2011

About done putting up hay. Need rain! Some might have to start feeding in a couple of weeks if it don't start raining.

Doug in Illinois · Jun 28, 2011

Shane, where are you at?

Sounds like the same weather we are having here near Macomb, IL.

I mowed about 4 acres Friday night, it has had over 3 inches of rain on it in 4 different storms. So much for "a chance of isolated showers".

Cut about another 10 acres last night, just walking out the door now to go do a 12 acre and a 8 acre patch across a creek from each other. Hope I can make it through the creek OK, the water is still running about 18 or 20 inches deep but it is only about 4 or 5 feet wide in the main part of it. DOUG

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